THE
THE STATUS OF WOMAN. belief in exercise, on a huge muscle- building scale is largely fallacious? AND THE DAWN OF A "NEW ERA Vital statistics go to show that athletes are usually unhealthy and shortlived persons. Rational diet will, in a more educated and hygienic age, be substituted. for this insane energy. Gastronomie confidences are the commonplaces of conversations nowadays among modern businessmen in and out of business hours, and their dressing-tables are garnished with varieties of "appetisers," and other alleviations.
"Women from time inmemuriat have been remaining dormant, and depended aspon men tu do all the toiling and bread winning which they voluntarily assumed; but, alas! they have been found wanting, or rather confoundedly lazy, so that our silent days are o'er and we have now to put bur shoulders to the wheel, rather then reckon on his random conduct. We possess the same quality and quantity of brains, and our intellects are as much developed, if not to a greater extent than theirs, it certainly wis will not ope their callous and conceited way, but follow a course of true indepen dence and pride, and be able to earn our awa livelihood. To depend upon a man nowadays is far too uncertain and erratic, He has lost his sobie instinct and his life is just one mass of rat. Honour with them -is-but a loss gift and they are fast becoming bensts of prey. I do not wish to be unduly hard."
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Well, in face of all this what can one seriously expect when the new woman, the non-smoker, the enemy of alcohol, the refined student of standard subjects enters the commercial arena? Long ago it has been decided that the ideal polity would consist of two classes, leaving slaves out of consideration, rulers and ruled. Therefore, though I dread to say 80-because I am one of the blunt sex,
III-EXTRATERRITORIALITY
TREATY PORTS,
in
Dr.
open
Thext
"All this, and more in reply to my query, put merely in a quest for ao presume-if Aristotle is any guide to dealing with foreigners who had offended to the foreign Government, which pay the democratic ideal in China, nor is it only
opinion from a lady reader as to whether constitutional bliss, there will soon be
no doubt as to which sex will be the best fitted to govern us in the days to come...'
You will therefore realise, "Sur," that though I differ from you in regard to
Bittle did I expect such a loss of honour and general rotting away, which restrictions could possibly be made Chinese Government for foreign residence would be useful to China, and which in
a new era of braing women had I, of course, Aprung up in our midst. had an opinion, but thought it would be of interest to read a feminine view of the subject. wholesale rating and condemnation of my fellow strugglers for existence-with one peculiar exception, the esteemd editor of this pap»?v=- more, especially the answer by Sue,"
I um nt one on the question of intellects. In fact I go one further and say that the avenge educated woman is superior to stated. But why is it that, like the rest subordinate to the weaker sex-physi
and is put under the control of the foreigners, though Chinese are permitted and foreign land-renters acquire their to hold land within the settlement area.
original owners, and pay land-tax to the
Sanitation, read improvement, police, lighting water-supply, fire brigades, any cases she is already trying to adopt,
libraries, volunteers-these, are a few of
Yet the question, and the average educated man-for the reason. Shanghai) Ching was bound by Treaty lots by direct negotiation with the the directions in which the Treaty Ports
that I am bound to stray from my limited sphere of Random Notes,
Ignoring altogether those sweeping assertions of change--not for the betier
answer "ignorance."
are showing China how much she has to
heart. Her attempt to establish proper
and decay which "Sue" has noticed big question-What are the million which the opening up of China is being through the exercise of the gregarious police forces has been going on for some
among wo callous and conceited" men, I may say at once that. like Sue,
Career
opinion of the mental capabilities of the trained laly is a high one, that an age brainy women is developing, and who are thint it all the clever women spread over the globe suddenly decided. to adopt a commercial or professional sometimes in preference to matrimonial drudgery, competition would necesarily be more keen; and, what is more important, the brain-power and versatility of the new women." would demand a higher standard of commercial and professional labour, Bullying and bluffing would give way to a real contest of wit and tact, and men might find that the undiluted mental faculties of his feminine opponent would score more than one point.
I hesitate.
RODERICK RANDOM.
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ten years now, though it cannot be said fruit, and her recent engagement of Colonel Bruce the Captain SuperinterMAPPIN&WEBB, dent of the Shanghai Municipal Police. ng adviser in police affairs is in itself a direct proof of the influence that the Treaty Ports exert in favour of reforms, But perhaps the most striking example of the effect the foreign influence exerted through the Treaty Ports has had in modernizing Chinese ideas is seen in the Shanghai Volunteer Corps.
NEW CONSIGNMENTS
HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25rm, 1913,
ACTIONS AND REACTIONS generous interpretation of the word. they will first become an essential part
IN CHINA.
The term marts" is sometimes used as of the nation's life and possess life in a way out of this latter diffienity: it may themselves. The citizens of the Republic be only a matter of personal taste, but can hardly he expected to take at nuce & the word seems seereely adequate as lively and intelligent interest in the Treaty Ports are so intimately congenerio term to include such centres of election and the operations of the Senate nected with the question of extraterri-commerce as Shanghai, Tientsin, and it will be fur easier for them to take a toriality that it might almost he said that Hankow; to another alternative "open lively and intelligent interest in the the one is a corollary of the other. Eren ports there is a stronger objection, for election of their own Town or City though such a statement unplies an effect it is not every Treaty Port that is hame Connoil, and in its workings. preceding its cause, it is not wholly dintely opened to foreign trade-in the smaller local bodies will, it is to be inaccurate, for whatever circumstances case of Nanking over 40 years elapsed believed, be found necessary, if China's may have operated to bring the Treaty between its nominal opening by the constitution is to be anything but & name, Ports into existence, it is clear that the French Treaty of Tientsin. 1858, and its as a means of educating the people in abolition of the restrictions they imply is effective opening by the establishment of the art of self-government, and they will a custom-house in 1889. Many of the be the more effective to this end, as the impossible so long as a foreigners in
This smaller Manchurian "ports," too, though people have already seen this principle at work under their eyes in the foreign China ere extraterritorialized.
Sun's included in the agreements with Japan. settlements of the Treaty Ports (even recognized was
throwing for
the are hot yet effectively open. proposal
It is usual to classify Treaty Ports though they themselves, though resident whole of China to foreign residenes, for simultaneously with the removal of the under four heads; (a) Those in which in the settlements, are debarred from Municipal government should play an restrictions there was to be set up in foreigners live in Concessions," leased participating in it),
important part in the development of the China a system of special Courts for in perpetuity by the Chinese Government
annual land-tax or rent, and sub-leases in the abstract principle that the Treaty A list of the against the law
Restrictions on freedom of residenco did lots to the land-renters." Ticatsin, Ports can give lessons. not follow the extortion of the right of Hankow, and Canton are examples of
Council reveals many concrete instances area is assigned by the i extraterritoriality, for one very sufficient this type; (5) the "settlement" ports; in operations of the Shanghai Municipal of improvements which are necessary or reason-there were only five pinces in in which an more absolute than they already were, and in these five places (the original ports Canton, Amay, Foochow Ningpo, and tu permit the residence of foreigners: the has created such an interesting point of mankind, I detest the thought of being admission of extraterritoriality was Chinese Government-this type is summed learn from the West in the proper order-" | collateral relaxation of the restrictions, cally. but not mentally? A indy would, and the attainment of this as well as the up in Shanghai; (e) those in which there ing of towns, and there are not wanting | opening of successive batches of Treaty is no reserved aren for foreign residence, signs that China is taking the lessons to A second letter by "Sue" opens another Ports represent the gradual stages by and where foreigners either create instinct, an informal and unrecognized accomplished. so that it may almost be females, who exceed the males by that
on the promontory at Chefoo (or, rather, umber, to do? And she asks me to
the five ports preceded the admission of tackle this question alone." At present extraterritoriality, and in any case the at Yentai), or else live at haphazard in intimate connection between the two is the Chinese city. (With reference to this apparent. It would obviously be impos class c, is may be pointed out that there of the Peking sible to allow all and sundry foreigners is, under Article 1 to wander at will in the remotest parts Protocol, 1896, a prescriptive right to of the interior when, in the event of their demand an area for a settlement in every getting into trouble, they could be dealt open port. The Article in question runs: with only by their own Consul, who might "It is agreed by the Contructing Parties that Settlements exclusively for the use be a thousand miles away.
of the Japanesa" and under the most
The maintenance of a military force is STERLING SILVER WARE. favoured-nation clause this right is automatically extended to all the Treaty not now usually included in the duties Powers "shall be provided at each 'upeni a municipality, but it is an intelligible What would seem, por of China, the Japanese Consul anomaly in China. having full control over the roads and however, to be even more of an anomaly. when the ultimate raison d'éfe of the police affairs in such Settlements.")
Finally there are (i) the so-called Volunteers is considered, is the inclusion ports, of which of a Chinese Eummpany in the Corps. The The report covering the period from
voluntarily-opened Yochow is a typical example. The Corps, it is sufficient to recall, owes its June 27th, 1913, the date of the incorpora-
municipal plan adopted at Yochow is one inception to the Taiping Rebellion with tier of the company, to June 30th lust, states that the gross profits of the Kailan
which has been introduced at some other its days of peril for Shanghai, and has The Chinese Government expro had on several occasions to repress Mining Administration, which administers
far required
au disorder among the Chinese inhabitants. the mines of this company and those of
laid out of the Settlements, the most serious case the Lanchow Mining Company, as a joint undertaking under an agreement dated Jane 1st, 1913, amounted to $2,934,737,
international settlement,"
1905. In the following May, the Chinese rivalry. It is unfortunate, but it is true. After making prevision, in accordance
roads and sold the lots by auction, being that of the Alixed Court rioly in Chamber of Commerce laid the founda What will be the effect of this on the with the terms of the agreement for one
reserving an annual ground rent of a substantial amount; wharfage dues.
tion of the Chinese Company by forming relative position of the sexes? Perhaps year's interest on the six per cent. Kailan bonds, £72,000; redemption of bonds for I am with another writer who gives it recupe Roth, 12,000, policy was applied when the East India moderate in amount, are levied" (the the Chinese Physical Tearing Associa as her profound conviction that in a reserve for depreciation. 344.210, and Company's trade with Canton became friction caused at Bantu by the breach of tion," and by November, 1906, the
to which considerable and English merchants extraterritoriality committed in the levy negotiations were completed, and permis CHS. J. GAUPP sanely organised society woman should the proportion of profit
these "wharfage dues" will be supply the creative intelligence, and the Chihli Provincial Government is settled in China-when China found it of auswer the claims of culture, while man" profit of $1,655,749, which is divisible as impossible or undesirable to exclude recalled), "municipal work and police are Company, under the following condi Oh! horror should be merely the follows:60 per cent to this company altogether, she made the admission as under the joint control of the Yochowtions(1). Its numbers to be limited to
and 40 per cent, to the Lanchov Mining bread-winging machine." In other words Compang. The suunt brought to the limited as possible and confined the out-territorial Taotai and the Commissioner 100 (2) Its two senior officers to be make of Cristors; all expenses are at the charge foreigners; (3) Arms to be issued for ho should dwell content in the valley of credit of the company'e profit and loss landers to a restricted arco.
Nor can it be said that subsequent of the Chinese Government, and the com- drill and service only; (4) Each member account is £101,156, which is reduced by commerce and make no attempt to certain expense; not chargeable to the events-unless we make an exception of munity is burdened neither with further to be guaranteed. This third condition.
Mining Administration trespass on the mountains of the mind. Kailan And it is because I am not engaged in £50,977. Interest and other items bring Dr. Sun's proposals demonstrate any taxation nor with the task of governing it should be added, was withdrawn Inst After change in this attitude. Many new ports in the event of further taxation becoming September, in view of the services up the total reeipts to £109.736, legitimate cominere I am not a gun-
deducting administration other have been opened, it is true, until the necessary, it will be under the control of rendered by the Chinese Company in the runter or pirate, of course-that I can expenses in Europe, income-tax, and the take sides with the lady who expressed sum of £5,457, being one-third of the total now stands at about 70, excluding representative body (Morse. The suppression of the riots that arose in preliminary expenses, there remains a not the Russian Leading posts in Mongolia, Trade and Administration of the Chinese connection with the plague-di-infection
927). This form of
Incasures in 1911, and especially on that opinion; almost a judgment. A prefit of £85,851. The board proposes to but in most entry the opening has been Empire, P.
in which the the price of a war (eg, those opened by municipal government, commercial man may have another idea. pay a further dividend of 4 per cent.. free of tax (making a total of 8 per cent.)
delicate task of expropriating the Chopei And though the average man is aware, on December 8th and to carry £5,854 the Treaties of Tientsin and Shimono foreign residents are not "burdened with account of the share they took in the or should be aware, of this transition, ferward. The working of the corapany's seki) or reparation for some wrong (the task of governing," represents one of can it be said that he is preparing for business in China in conjunction with those upened by the Chefeo Convention), China's attempts to check the independice and taking charge of the locality
that, of the Lanchow Mining Company, while of the so-called voluntarily opened ence of the pre to check the pencil for the Shanghai Municipal Council MACGREGOR&C®
The noteworthy featuro in connection this gentle Leviathan?
subject to which it will be necessary to How does he under the Kailan Mining Administra-
with the Company, however, is not its spend his days? The majority of the bion, has, the directors state, proceeded ports, the opening in some cases (as day-time is occupied in the pursuit, and satisfactorily and the results which have Yochow) was obtained only as the result recur later.
beeri obtained during the first year have of protracted and sometimes severe The influence of Treaty Porta on China composition. In contradistinction to the contempt with which the profession of losing, of lucre. In this he is filling that fulfilled their expectations.
arins is (or was, until it became so luera- niche supplied for him by the ladies, sales of coal for the year amounted to pressure from a foreign Power, while in hay to a large extent been of the same
The sales for the current others it was done as an act of self-nature as that of Hongkong. They have tive) looked upon in China, the members 1,728,298 tonis.
ag Shanghai knows to its cost, provided of the Chinese Company of the Volunteer But there are leisure hours. Are these year up to the present time show preservation on China's part-Santo was always spent in developing the qualities gratifying increase over those for the thus opened in 1898, because it was feared centres for preparing and hatching Corps are all men of good position, being of the mind which soar higher than money i corresponding period of the past year.
On the contrary, while the accompanied by an increase in the net (not without reason, as was shown by the revolutionary plots, and have in tora mostly the sons of substantial merchants, matters elerer woman is so engaged, and if the profit, and the directors are advised that Italian demand) that its magnificent furnished asylum to political refugees. while yacancies in the rank-and-file are LUXURIES
the prospects continue to be very harbour accommodation would make it It is, however, in the held of amnicipal eagerly canvassed and there is always a too great a temptation to some foreign government that their influence has been
of long list day be fine, he quickly distorts himself satisfactory.
Power. China frequently claims that exerted, and this influence has necessarily admission. in the matter of attire and centres his
these "voluntarily-opened ports" stand been greatest in these ports where there whole mind and body on the getting down of his handicap to a smaller figure, and
A powerful amusement syndicate, con on a different footing from the Treaty is a foreign settlement definitely com- getting his figure down to a smaller trolled by Wang Tu Kai, described as the Ports proper-that having opened them mitted to foreign municipal administra- handicap. If wet, light and bottomless Napoleon of entertainments in Asia, a voluntarily, she is entitled to do it under tion, in which Chinese live side by side LARGE FIRE INSURANCE BY THE
CANADIAN PACIFIC. literature.or "Yip-i-addy" sort of London paper says, has made arrange-. music hall. Though not of a commercialents to acquire the exclusive rights of her own conditions-so it may be pointed with foreigners and under foreign
Hullo Ragtime
control. These conditions have reached the popular revue
THEEE YEARS CONTRACT. bent, I have done this myself, and readily for China and Japan. The revue will Yochow in any case, for its opening was their apotheosis in Shanghai, which confess to it. Then the club holds out be produced early in the New Year in exacted from China in reparation for her exhibits in their most pronounced form
correspondent of The Times its arms, rarely unsuccessfully; and a
The Chinese Minister, H.E. Liu-Yuk breach of faith in refusing to accept the the influence that the Treaty Ports can
· of twelve exert on China's development and the at Montreal states that the Canadian jovial friend and some soda with a dash Lin, whose Colestial liberality of mini, British Government loan of something else appeals with much more remarks a London paper, extends to millions according to her preliminary desire of Young China to curb, as far as Pacific Railway Company has effected opening Roman Catholic bazaars, is an agreement, although, to save her face, she it may the independence of these quas an insurance policy for $100,000,000 forge than the pages of a new and com
enthusiastic amateur of minute poroclain
was allowed to effect the opening autonomous foreign communities. No (£20,000,000) Cn property valued a ples tume on seiology, following a Frases. He carries his lovely collection round which closely approached the club's about with him wherever he goes, just as quasi-voluntarily, by an Imperial Decree apology accordingly is needed for dis- $115,000,000 (£23,000,000). The insurance
instead of by Treaty,
Now to revert to the booklet the read ing and voicing of which has drawn Herein it states: "We are approaching an era of brainy ladies, That means an era of acrimonious sex.
Suo."
CHINESE ENGINEERING AND
MINING COMPANY.
entitled. 811,125, there remains a
and
net
ts
The total
RAGTIME IN CHINESE.
Peking.
C
Regarded from another standpoint, the Treaty Ports are the modern exemplifica tion of the policy of segregation that China has pursued with foreigners from The Portuguese, adven the beginning. turers under the brothers de Andrade (middle of the sixteenth century) were permitted to trade at the three ports of Ningpo, Chinchew, and Foochow at the two first-named of which they established After their expulsion from colonies: these parts, they were allowed to establish themselves on another site end of the Macao peninsule. The Dutch,priated the land again, were not allowed to settle on the mainland. but no objection was raised to their residence in comparative isolation on the island of Formosa. The same
"out
record effort. Now there is a craze for a Western lady carries her friends violent exercise to cure any cob-webby photographs. The other day his Excel- effects of long hours in a bad atmosphere,ency lent his collection to the White
chapel Art Gallery, and mental strain. To ask men, under these circumstances, to give their opinion
the extremsports
that this cannot be said of
....
cussing the Treaty Ports in the light of Shanghai
It may be remarked in passing that
In spite of the hope of enthusiasts that though the term Treaty Port is sanctioned by usage and convenience as the generic China will be able to pass in a night aut title for the places open to foreign trade ANGLO-CHINESE FRIENDSHIP.
a morning from an autocratic system of and residence, it is in many cases
government, to a democratic republic, it a certain idea of Aristotle's would
Mr. Bryce has accepted the honorary inaccurate it includes places, such as
is reasonable to believe that, even though probably result in violence. Suggest a presidency of the Anglo-Chinese Friend Yoshow Woosung, Santu, etc., that were
the form and machinery of the constita round of golf, a game of cricket or ship Bureau, and Lord Lamington and billiards, and you are almost lovingly Liu Yuk Lin have become Vice-Presidents opened by Imperial Decree, as well as
order, it is in the lesser departmtats that received. Yet, do you know that this Mr. Gerald France, M.P., and Miss others, as Tengyueh, Mukden, Mengize, tlon are in existence and in working Emily Kemp have joined the committee. that can only be called Ports by a very
A
sion was given to form the Chinese
The
applicants
(To be Continued.).
awaiting"
ance syndicates, has been transacted through ave insur The contract is for three years and supersedes the existing policy. Owing to the level of the rate some of the English offices did not consider the terms of that policy sufficiently attractive, and it is known that in Canada there has been keen competition to secure the renewal of the business. The insurance covers stations of the company against the risk of fire. the whole of the rolling stock, sheds, and
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